Hello I am a iOS developer and have been getting lots of interest lately from ebay recruiters. A couple questions for any ebay workers. 1. How is ebay and the Portland office? Is it growing or having retention issues? 2. If you are a iOS developer do you enjoy your job at ebay? 3. If I decide to interview there any tips on what to brush up on? Thanks! #ebay #portland #ios
Your experience and TC?
I'm not in Portland, but fyi eBay Dev infrastructure is very old. If you come here, you'll have to deal with this eventually, whether it is mobile development or day to day tasks such as using their sso 😢 which is Single sign on everytime you access a different app (not sso at all). Also, there seems to be a culture of reinvent the wheel Internally and reduce the team in charge of it after a year or so 😫
The culture of the mobile teams is quite different from that and I would recommend it. But you'll have to deal with the service teams and are harder to deal with said they are in San Jose.
The culture of a specific team is not the problem. It's the collaborative speed between teams, the huge Tech debt, old infrastructure, the mindset of continually reinventing the wheel, that's the problem you got to deal with in eBay. If we had to work just within one team, then work would be a breeze. But that's not the case. Specially if you are in mobile team. Consider the network restrictions, the fifty different teams invloved to just get your new feature up and running.
Bright future ahead . Go ahead and join us. We are hiring crazy this year
Which team?
The View Item and Transaction Flows Engineering team. I was not really looking for a new job but we are sorta in the middle of a reorg so the recruiters email caught my eye plus been seeing lots of ebay postings. Biggest mistake I made was I didn't validate he was a ebay recruiter before I contacted him. I always worry if it is just some outside person trying to sell leads.